Ireland

Irish energy giant EirGrid responded to just 10 per cent of the public submissions it received during the consultation period for Grid Link last January, say campaigners.

The Yellow River Wind Farm, proposed by Irish developer Green Wind Energy for land north of Rhode in Offaly, has been given the green light by An Bord Pleanala.

A new whiskey museum on College Green and a new visitors centre at St Patrick’s Cathedral are to built thanks to a €300,000 investment into Dublin’s tourism industry.

Irish planning and housing minister Jan O’Sullivan has stressed that there will be no return to the low density housing sprawl of the recent past.